Stroker Ace [videorecording] Universal Pictures and Warner Bros. present ; a Walter Wood production ; a Hal Needham film ; produced by Hank Moonjean ; directed by Hal Needham.
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FilmPublisher: Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, c1998Description: 1 videodisc (95 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inISBN: 0790738627Subject(s): Automobile racing -- Drama | Sports sponsorship -- DramaGenre/Form: Comedy films. | Sports films. | Feature films. | Films for the hearing impaired.DDC classification: 791.43/72 Production credits: Screenplay, Hugh Wilson, Hal Needham ; music, Al Capps ; title song by the Charlie Daniels Band.Cast: Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty, Jim Nabors, Parker Stevenson, Loni Anderson.Summary: Stroker Ace, two-time NASCAR winner heading for his third championship, loses his sponsor. In desperation he signs with fried chicken magnate Clyde Torkle. Soon Stroker discovers his book-length, iron-clad contract requires him to wear a chicken costume for television commercials and publicity stunts. Worse than that for any proud, daredevil racer, he has to drive a stock car with a sign that says "Fastest Chicken in the South."
| Item type | Home library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| DVD Video | A J M Library 868-5076 | DVD STRO (Browse shelf) | Available | 32366 |
Videodisc release of the 1983 motion picture by Warner Bros. Inc. and Universal City Studios Inc.
Based on the novel "Stand on it" by William Neely and Robert K. Ottum.
Screenplay, Hugh Wilson, Hal Needham ; music, Al Capps ; title song by the Charlie Daniels Band.
Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty, Jim Nabors, Parker Stevenson, Loni Anderson.
Stroker Ace, two-time NASCAR winner heading for his third championship, loses his sponsor. In desperation he signs with fried chicken magnate Clyde Torkle. Soon Stroker discovers his book-length, iron-clad contract requires him to wear a chicken costume for television commercials and publicity stunts. Worse than that for any proud, daredevil racer, he has to drive a stock car with a sign that says "Fastest Chicken in the South."
Rated PG.
DVD; Dolby Digital mono.
Closed captioned for the hearing impaired.
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